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First Republican Publicly Threatens Move to Oust McCarthy as Speaker

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First Republican Publicly Threatens Move to Oust McCarthy as Speaker
Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) speaks as Federal Emergency Management Agency Administrator Peter Gaynor testifies before a House Committee on Homeland Security meeting on Capitol Hill in Washington on July 22, 2020. Andrew Harnik-Pool/Getty Images
Jackson Richman
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Rep. Dan Bishop (R-N.C.) threatened on May 30 to seek an end to Kevin McCarthy’s tenure as speaker of the House were he to go through with his debt ceiling agreement with President Joe Biden.

Bishop is the first one to make this threat.

Jackson Richman
Jackson Richman
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Jackson Richman is a Washington correspondent for The Epoch Times. In addition to Washington politics, he covers the intersection of politics and sports/sports and culture. He previously was a writer at Mediaite and Washington correspondent at Jewish News Syndicate. His writing has also appeared in The Washington Examiner. He is an alum of George Washington University.
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